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Second, I would know about this product because I read slashdot and have seen Airport Express postings, which have had comments referring to these. I also recently purchased the aforementioned Asus WL330 access point. (Which has been revised; see a review of older model here.) This is a very good product that I've been very happy with.

In my opionion, a PR page on a small access point, which follows the same from Apple, ( here, here, and here) is not newsworthy.

Frankly, if I _were_ a subscriber, which I have considered doing at length, I would be pissed that stories like this show up. I want insightful reviews and bleeding edge stuff I won't see other places for weeks. Not product pages to DLink products. I can go to dlink.com for that.

THIS is why I said what I said.

It's been said so many times that it's not interesting, insightful, or funny. That makes it -1 Redundant.

I ultimately got rid of the machine, as it was hot and noisy (due to fans).

I'm currently looking in to Linksys's network storage thingy: http://www.tomsnetworking.com/Reviews-155-ProdID-N SLU2-1.php

Although the Linksys solution won't offer RAID redundancy or performance, for a multimedia application like mine it's satisfactory. I personally don't care if I lose this particular data - I deal in taper-friendly bands, so re-acquiring lost music is not difficult.

Are you familiar with WDS? The Wireless Distribution System? It's a standard used by 802.11 to extend wireless networks.

All the possible problems you bring up are completely negated by following the WDS standard (which is implamented in at least the broadcom chipset).

Tom's Hardware and WiFi Planet... somewhat dishartening, i suppose..

There are some inaccuracies I'd like to point out, if you don't mind:

Somewhere I also read that Linksys will not support any turbo modes in their AP/Routers
Linksys is supporting a "turbo" mode, thanks to Broadcom's "Afterburner" technology, which is implemented as Linksys's "SpeedBooster" technology. Afterburner requires a new revision of Broadcom's 802.11g chipset, however, so previous G products can't be enhanced, only new products.

Atheros already had 108mb/s A support in turbo, allowing 45mb/sec throughput by using multiple channels
Atheros and Broadcom are taking 2 different approaches to "turbo" here; while SuperG uses multiple channels(and is proven to degrade other networks, albeit mostly Broadcom's, oddly enough) along with compression and other effeciency boosting technologies, Broadcom's Afterburner will not be using any sort of channel bonding, just effeciency boosting. This is an important distinction, since Atheros' implementation will be faster(more raw physical bandwidth), but Broadcom's implementation will be a "good neighbor" to other devices. Of course, if you even have to deal with other devices, you're screwed anyhow; just having a B device in the same sphere will require G devices to slow down to warn the B device, so all your fancy effeciency boosting tricks also get disabled.

Anyhow, check out Tom's Networking's review of Linksys's WRT54GS router; it is loaded with information on SuperG, Afterburner, incompatibilities, and performance.

this link still can access the actual page
http://tomsnetworking.com/index.php